James Strachan has written a lengthy appeal for Sun to open source rt.jar. I'm really undecided here (I see James's point but I just don't feel the pain myself) but decided to spread to word anyway.

This is something I still don't quite get. I just doesn't feel right. Yes, I acknowledge that Red Hat has a legal right to take an open source (LGPL) application server like JOnAS, rebrand it, and distribute it as part of their Linux distro, but there's still something that makes me feel uncomfortable.

My brief self-analysis indicates that my "WTF" response to Red Hat's doings is probably caused by me not believing that Red Hat has added anything significant of their own into what they're rebranding.

It's a bit like IBM would take JBoss, add a Windows installer for it, and sell it as WebSphere 7.0...

Gosh. I just realized that I've managed to add a total of 101 feeds to my BlogLines.com account. I think I went triple-digit at some point during this week. Thank god not every one of those are pushing stuff out several times a day...

I know I have mentioned playing audio to signal things about an automated build, but an ambient orb like this would definitely be more practical.